The Life of Cheese

The Life of Cheese Crafting Food and Value in America - California Studies in Food and Culture

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Publisher's Synopsis

Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson's beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are a wild cast of characters, including plants, animals, microorganisms, family members, employees, and customers. As “unfinished” commodities, living products whose qualities are not fully settled, handmade cheeses embody a mix of new and old ideas about taste and value. By exploring the life of cheese, Paxson helps rethink the politics of food, land, and labor today.

Book information

ISBN: 9780520270176
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 637.3
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: xiii, 303 .
Weight: 472g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 25mm